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SUMMARY:Sebastian Barry - 30 Jan
DESCRIPTION:The great Irish writer Sebastian Barry visits the ILS on 30 January to join in conversation with Prof Roy Foster about his new novel Days Without End. \nThe novel continues Barry’s saga of two Irish families\, the Dunnes and the McNultys\, which has spanned several novels and multiple time frames and locations. The Guardian has called the sequence ‘one of the most compelling\, bravura and heart-wrenching fictional projects of recent memory.’A beautiful\, savage\, tender\, searing work of art. Sentence after perfect sentence it grips and does not let go.Donal Ryan\n‘Time was not something then we thought of as an item that possessed an ending\,\nbut something that would go on for ever\, all rested and stopped in that moment.\nHard to say what I mean by that. You look back at all the endless years when you\nnever had that thought. I am doing that now as I write these words in Tennessee. I\nam thinking of the days without end of my life. And it is not like that now…’ \nAfter signing up for the US army in the 1850s\, aged barely seventeen\, Thomas\nMcNulty and his brother-in-arms\, John Cole\, go on to fight in the Indian wars and\,\nultimately\, the Civil War. Having fled terrible hardships themselves\, they find these days to be vivid and filled with wonder\, despite the horrors they both witness and are complicit in. Their lives are further enriched and endangered when a young Indian girl crosses their path\, and the possibility of lasting happiness emerges\, if only they can survive.A violent\, superbly lyrical western offering a sweeping vision of America in the making [and] the most fascinating line-by-line first person narration I’ve come across in years.Kazuo Ishiguro\nMoving from the plains of the West to Tennessee\, Sebastian Barry’s latest work is a masterpiece of atmosphere and language. Both an intensely poignant story of two men and the lives they are dealt\, and a fresh look at some of the most fateful years in America’s past\, Days Without End is a novel never to be forgotten. \nSpeakers:\n\nSebastian Barry\nSebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His novels and plays have won the Costa Book of the Year award\, the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize\, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year\, the Independent Booksellers Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He also had two consecutive novels\, A Long Long Way (2005) and the top ten bestseller The Secret Scripture (2008)\, shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize. He lives in Wicklow.\n\n\nProf Roy Foster\nRoy Foster recently retired as Carroll Professor of Irish history at Oxford\, he is a fellow of Hertford College. He has written widely on Irish history\, society and politics in the modern period\, as well as on Victorian high politics and culture. Foster produced a widely acclaimed biography of William Butler Yeats which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In Words Alone: Yeats and his inheritances (2011)\, he presents a re-reading of Irish literary history throughout the nineteenth century and places Yeats and his inspirations in apposition to a much wider range of literary and political precursors than is usually the case. His most recent book is Vivid Faces: the revolutionary generation in Ireland 1890-1914.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/sebastian-barry-30-jan/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:America,book signing,history,interview,novel,Reading
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SUMMARY:London Irish poetic tradition - 28 Nov
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe ILS teams up with RTÉ’s Poetry Programme to reflect on the London-Irish poetic tradition. Presenter Rick O’Shea talks to the ILS President Bernard O’Donoghue\, and Vice President Roy Foster about the work and reception of Irish poets in London and how the city shaped those writers and fed back into Irish culture. A recording of this event is now available on the RTÉ Poetry Programme website.  \n Our overview takes the Revival as starting point and considers the work of Irish poets who have passed through or settled in London such as Yeats\, Tynan\, Clarke\, MacNeice\, Boland and Heaney. Our panel of poets will reflect on the anxiety of influence\, the notion of tradition and the tensions and opportunities for the Irish poet in London. \nSpeakers:\n\nSiobhán Campbell\nSiobhán is a poet\, critic and lecturer. She is the author of five works of poetry and co-editor of the forthcoming book of essays on the work of Eavan Boland. Her poetry has received awards in the National Poetry Competition and the Troubadour International Competition and is the recipient of an Arts Council award and the Templar Poetry Prize. Much of Campbell’s work is expressive of her interest in the place of the political poem in contemporary poetics – her forthcoming volume Heat Signature (March\, 2017) reflects on commemoration and the centenary of the Dublin Rising while her Cross Talk (2010) explored boundaries and the interwoven nature of family\, local and historical conflicts.\n\nCahal Dallat\nSince moving to London 40 years ago the Ballycastle native has been a computer scientist and a critic\, a musician and a broadcaster. Dallat’s literary horizons broadened when he joined a nascent poetry workshop run by Robert Greacon\, an esteemed Dublin writer who had relocated to London. His poetry appears in a range of literary magazines & anthologies\, in Trio 7 (with John Kelly & Sean McWilliams\, Blackstaff Press\, 1992)\, Morning Star (Lagan Press\, 1998) and in The Year of Not Dancing (Blackstaff Press\, 2009).\n\nMartina Evans\nMartina Evans is a poet\, novelist and teacher. She grew up in County Cork in a country pub\, shop and petrol station and is the youngest of ten children. She is the author of ten books of prose and poetry. She is currently Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck University\, London and a Lector for the Royal Literary Reading Round 2014-2016. Watch\, a pamphlet was published by Rack Press in January 2016 and The Windows of Graceland\, New & Selected Poems was published by Carcanet in May 2016. Martina will feature in the broadcast but will not be present at the event.\n\nProf Roy Foster\nRoy Foster recently retired as Carroll Professor of Irish history at Oxford\, he is a fellow of Hertford College. He has written widely on Irish history\, society and politics in the modern period\, as well as on Victorian high politics and culture. Foster produced a widely acclaimed biography of William Butler Yeats which was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In Words Alone: Yeats and his inheritances (2011)\, he presents a re-reading of Irish literary history throughout the nineteenth century and places Yeats and his inspirations in apposition to a much wider range of literary and political precursors than is usually the case. His most recent book is Vivid Faces: the revolutionary generation in Ireland 1890-1914.\n\nProf Bernard O’Donoghue\nBernard O’Donoghue is a Professor and Emeritus Fellow in English at Wadham College\, Oxford. He is a poet and literary critic\, and author of Seamus Heaney and the Language of Poetry (1995) – he succeeded Heaney as President of the ILS. His most recent poetry collection is The Seasons of Cullen Church (2016)\, which has been shortlisted for the T S Elliot award. Previous volumes include Farmer’s Cross (2011)\, Gunpowder (1995)\, Here Nor There (1999); Outliving (2003)\, Selected Poems in 2008. O’Donoghue was winner of the 1995 Whitbread Poetry Award and Cholmondeley Award in 2009.\n\nDeclan Ryan\nDeclan Ryan was born in County Mayo\, Ireland and has lived in London since. His pamphlet was published in the Faber New Poets series. He is poetry editor at Ambit and teaches at King’s College London. Declan Ryan’s poem\, ‘From Alun Lewis’ was featured in the Autumn 2012 issue of The Poetry Review. His poems and reviews have also been published in Poetry London\, The Rialto\, and elsewhere. He was also named one of the Faber New Poets in 2014. \nReaders: Donal Cox\, Peter Power-Hynes\, Patricia Leventon\, Michael McClain\, Shevaun Wilder. \nShare this Post
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/london-irish-poetic-tradition/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:interview,lecture,poetry,Reading,special event
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SUMMARY:Rattlebag\, Looking West - 31 Oct
DESCRIPTION:Our eclectic Rattlebag forum returns with the novelist Jess Kidd\, poet Kimberly Campanello and academic Clare Walker Gore. Kidd’s brilliantly original debut novel Himself is a gothic detective story set in 1970s Mayo with a cast of ghosts. Having been abandoned on the steps of an orphanage as an infant\, lovable car thief and Dublin charmer Mahony assumed all his life that his mother had simply given him up. But when he receives an anonymous note suggesting that foul play may have led to his mother’s disappearance\, he sees only one option: to return to the rural Irish village where he was born and find out what really happened twenty-six years ago. … “I love this book. It’s a magic realist murder mystery set in rural Ireland\, in which the dead play as important a part as the living. It’s one of those books that has you smiling as you read\, and that you plan to read again very soon.”. Louis de Bernières\, bestselling author of Corelli’s Mandolin on Himself\nDr Campanello is an Irish-American poet who has produced fine work in Strange Country (Dreadful Press\, 2015) which inhabits the complexity of the sheela-na-gigs – ancient stone carvings of female figures that prominently display the vulva\, which are found on churches\, castles and town walls across Ireland and some of Britain. Campanello will read from Strange Country and present her sonically rich project about the St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home in Tuam\, MOTHERBABYHOME (zimZalla Avant Objects\, forthcoming in 2016). \nDr Clare Walker Gore of the University of Cambridge discusses The Life of Arthur Macmurrough Kavanagh and what this fascinating biography contributes to our understanding of disabled people in the 19th century. Born at Borris House in County Carlow without hands and feet\, he was an adventurous traveller and a Member of Parliament\, a tiger-hunting landowner whose attempts to resist the rising tide of Irish nationalism were ultimately defeated\, and whose amazing career has been largely forgotten. But how did his first biographer meet the challenge of writing his life? \nOur three panelists will be in conversation with Gavin Clarke. \nSpeakers:\n\nDr Jess Kidd\nJess Kidd has a PhD in Creative Writing from St. Mary’s University in Strawberry Hill and currently teaches Creative Writing to adult learners and undergraduates. Before that she was a support worker specialising in acquired brain injury. She grew up as a part of a large family from Mayo and now lives in London with her daughter. Himself is Jess’ first novel and she is now completing her second\, a contemporary crime novel called Hoarder and a collection of short stories.\n\n\nDr Kimberly Campanello\nKimberly Campanello was born in Elkhart\, Indiana\, and is a dual American and Irish citizen. She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at York St John University. Her poetry publications include Spinning Cities (Wurm Press\, 2011)\, Consent (Doire Press\, 2013)\, and Imagines (New Dublin Press\, 2015). In October 2015\, The Dreadful Press published Strange Country\, Campanello’s full-length collection on the sheela-na-gig stone carvings. ZimZalla will publish MOTHERBABYHOME\, a book of conceptual and visual poetry in 2016. \nDr Clare Walker Gore\nEarly career researcher working on disability in Victorian literature especially novels by Charles Dickens\, Wilkie Collins\, Anthony Trollope and George Eliot\, and the biographies of the period. Particular interests in disability history and women’s writing. PhD from Selwyn College\, Cambridge\, Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College\, Cambridge from October 2016. \nShare this Post
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/rattlebag-looking-west-31-oct/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:book signing,interview,lecture,poetry,Reading,research
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SUMMARY:Alice Milligan\, 150 - 26 Sept
DESCRIPTION:It is fitting that first event of the ILS 2016-17 125th anniversary season marks the anniversary of one of its earliest members and a central figure in the Irish Cultural Revival. Dr Catherine Morris will reflect on her life and legacy of Alice Milligan on the 150th anniversary of her birth in her talk ‘Transformative Art and the Irish Cultural Revival.’ \nMorris’ book is the first study to explore the life and work of Alice Milligan (1866–­1953). A prolific writer for over six decades\, she published her work in a range of genres (including poetry\, short stories\, novels\, travelogues\, biography\, plays\, journalism\, letters\, and memoirs). From 1891 to the 1940s\, she founded a series of cultural\, feminist\, commemorative and political organizations that put the north on the map of the Irish Cultural Revival and provided a new resonance to Irish visual culture. The biography not only reclaims an unjustly forgotten Irish cultural and political activist during this foundational era in modern Ireland\, but also provides new ways of interpreting the Irish Cultural Revival itself. \n… A profound and moving analysis of one of the greatest inventors of modern Ireland\, this account of Alice Milligan itself displays those qualities of intellectual versatility and imaginative audacity which ennobled her life through its many astonishing phases.Professor Declan Kiberd\nA graphic novel exploring the life of Alice Milligan and her role in the revival of Irish culture during the early 20th century is available to download and view. Developed by Dr Morris and Nerve Centre’s Creative Centenaries project\, in conjunction with Revolve Comics\, the short story charts some of the experiences of Alice Milligan and her work in the preservation of Irish cultures and beliefs: Alice Milligan and the Irish Cultural Revival \nSpeaker:\n\nDr Catherine Morris\nCatherine Morris is Liverpool Central Library’s first Writer-in-Residence. Her project\, Intimate Power: Autobiography of a City\, montaging life-writing with photo-essays and community interviews is being made on location at resonant sites across Liverpool. Her monograph\, Alice Milligan and the Irish Cultural Revival\, uncovered the forgotten arts practice of one of the founders of modern Ireland. In 2016\, she worked with Nerve Centre in Derry to launch a graphic novel of Milligan’s life as part of the Key Stage 3 National Curriculum for schools in Northern Ireland. Her exhibition Alice Milligan and the Irish Cultural Revival at the National Library of Ireland was opened by Fiona Shaw (2010). In 2012\, she gifted her research archive to Omagh Public Library. She was curatorial advisor on the Irish Museum of Modern Art exhibition El Lissitzky: the Artists and the State; is co-founder of the Artist Centre for Human Rights\, co-editor of The Cassandra Echo & an Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/alice-milligan-150-26-sept/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:interview,lecture,Reading,research
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SUMMARY:Bernard MacLaverty - 25 April
DESCRIPTION:The annual ILS / St Mary’s University\, Centre for Irish Studies lecture will this year feature the great Irish writer Bernard MacLaverty in conversation with Dr Richard Mills. \nMacLaverty is the author of the novels Lamb (1980); Cal (1983); Grace Notes (1997); and The Anatomy School (2001)\, set in Belfast in the late 1960s. Both Lamb and Cal have been made into major films for which he wrote the screenplays\, and he has written various versions of his fiction for radio\, television and screen. Grace Notes was awarded the 1997 Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year Award and shortlisted for many other major prizes\, including the Booker Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread Novel Award. \nHis books of short stories are Secrets & Other Stories (1977); A Time to Dance & Other Stories (1982); The Great Profundo & Other Stories (1987); Walking the Dog & Other Stories (1994)\, Matters of Life & Death (2006) and most recently published his Collected Stories (2013). He has also written 2 books for young children: A Man in Search of a Pet (1978)\, which he also illustrated; and Andrew McAndrew (1988). \nIn 2003\, he wrote and directed a short film\, Bye-Child\, after a poem by Seamus Heaney\, which was nominated for a BAFTA (Best Short Film Award) and won a BAFTA Scotland (Best First Director Award).\nMacLaverty’s work is in a line from Chekhov\, via Frank O’Connor. He relates the kind of incidents you might hear from someone at a bus-stop or in bed: a house is burgled\, a woman is raped\, a neighbour’s bad parking is not what it seems. Whatever happens is both real and enriched by the telling of it\, and MacLaverty makes this look like a natural and obvious thing to do. It is not\, of course. Fans will recognise him in the details – the finer cuts of colloquial speech\, his microscopic eye and an ear for noises off. All of this anchored in personality; the distinctiveness of people being one of his great delights. Anne Enright\nPresented in association with the Centre for Irish Studies\, St Mary’s University\, Twickenham:\n\n\nSpeakers:\n\nBernard MacLaverty\nBernard MacLaverty was born in Belfast in 1942\, and moved to Scotland in 1975\, where he lived in Edinburgh\, on the Isle of Islay\, and now in Glasgow. He has been a Medical Laboratory Technician\, a mature student\, a teacher of English and occasionally a Writer-in-Residence (Universities of Aberdeen\, Augsburg\, Liverpool John Moore’s and Iowa State). After living for a time in Edinburgh and the Isle of Islay he now lives in Glasgow. He is a member of Aosdana in Ireland. \n\nDr Richard Mills\nRichard’s research interests are in Irish Literature and Popular Culture. Since 2002\, he has been a lecturer in Irish Studies\, Film\, Popular Culture\, English and Creative Writing at St Mary’s University. Mills’ recent publications include “‘That Orange and Green Dilemma’: Violence and the Traumatised Subject in Bernard MacLaverty’s Screenplays of Cal (1983) and Lamb (1985).” Bernard MacLaverty: New Critical Readings Richard Russell Rankin (ed.)\, (Bloomsbury: 2014). Forthcoming is ‘The Beatles Through Fans’ Eyes’\, Understanding the Beatles Volume 2: Creativity\, Reception\, Interpretation\, Marcus Collins and James McGrath (eds)\, (Equinox: 2016).
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/bernard-maclaverty-25-april/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:interview,lecture,Reading,short story
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SUMMARY:The Stinging Fly - 21 March
DESCRIPTION:The ILS comes together with The Stinging Fly literary magazine to reflect on the literary legacy of 1916. The bumper anniversary edition\, subtitled ‘In the Wake of the Rising’\, brings together 43 writers to respond to the literature and events of the 1916 Rising. Readings by contributors: Martina Evans\, Aisling Fahy\, Grahame Williams\, and Joan Win Brennan will accompany a discussion between the ILS Hon. Secretary\, Gavin Clarke\, with publisher Declan Meade and guest editor Sean O’Reilly.  \n… [I]n today’s tough market\, where literary fiction is no longer the cornerstone of the publishing business\, no longer the prestige flagship of any respectable publishing firm\, the influence of the literary magazine is arguably no longer what it once was. However\, in Ireland\, one small but beautifully formed magazine is bucking that trend\, launching the careers of literary talents\, nurturing them with care and even publishing their work in book form. How\, exactly\, does The Stinging Fly do it?”Alison Walsh\, The Sunday Independent\nSean O’Reilly on editing the special edition:\n\n‘There are many reasons behind the publication of this special edition of The Stinging Fly in the centenary year of the Easter Rising. Perhaps the most important one\, I would say\, is that any literary magazine\, whether it likes it or not\, is a product of the times in which it is made. Hopefully\, it is also an inspirational and critical response to those times. The issue would open up an alternative space for writers to re-read and respond to the events of that Easter Monday\, the background and the legacy\, and to the Proclamation itself\, a founding document of the Republic\, outside of the official events and memorials planned by the government of the day—which\, as I write\, is preparing to go to the people again. The writers were free to respond to this material in whatever way they wanted\, in any shape or form.’\n\nThe ‘In the Wake of the Rising’ issue will feature on The Book on One on RTÉ Radio One during the week March 21st to March 25th.\n\nContributors:\n The Stinging Fly magazine was established in 1997 to seek out\, publish and promote the very best new Irish and international writing. Three issues are published each year. The Stinging Fly Press operates in tandem with the magazine and has published debut short-story collections by Kevin Barry\, Michael J. Farrell\, Mary Costello\, Colin Barrett\, Claire-Louise Bennett and Danielle McLaughlin.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/the-stinging-fly-in-the-wake-of-the-rising/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:book signing,interview,lecture,poetry,Reading,short story
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SUMMARY:The Long Gaze Back - 29 February
DESCRIPTION:Sinéad Gleeson and Lucy Caldwell discuss the new anthology of Irish women’s short stories\, The Long Gaze Back. The title comes from a line in The Visitor by Maeve Brennan\, whose story The Eldest Child in included in the collection. \n‘Gleeson directs her gaze back like a literary archaeologist who has excavated the archives and unearthed treasures for the short story lover’s delight.’ Ann O’NeillThe Long Gaze Back is an exhilarating anthology of thirty short stories by some of the most gifted women writers Ireland has ever produced. Taken together\, the collected works of these writers reveal an enrapturing\, unnerving\, and piercingly beautiful mosaic of a lively literary landscape. Spanning four centuries\, The Long Gaze Back features eight rare stories from deceased luminaries and forerunners\, and 22 new unpublished stories by some of the most talented Irish women writers working today. The anthology presents an inclusive and celebratory portrait of the high calibre of contemporary literature in Ireland. \nThese stories run the gamut from heartbreaking to humorous\, but each leaves a lasting impression. They chart the passions\, obligations\, trials and tribulations of a variety of vividly-drawn characters with unflinching honesty and relentless compassion.\n  \nSpeakers:\n\nSinéad Gleeson\nSinéad Gleeson is a broadcaster\, critic and writer who presents The Book Show on RTE Radio 1. She reviews books for The Irish Times and RTE Radio One’s arts show\, Arena. As a moderator at literary festivals\, Sinéad has interviewed many writers and artists\, including Martin Amis\, Edna O’Brien\, Ian McEwan\, Donna Tartt and Brian Eno. She is the editor of two short story anthologies\, Silver Threads of Hope\, and most recently The Long Gaze Back: an Anthology of Irish Women Writers\, which won Best Irish Published Book at the 2015 Irish Book Awards. She is currently editing another anthology for New Island Books\, which will be published in Autumn 2016. \n\nLucy Caldwell\nBorn in Belfast in 1981\, Lucy Caldwell read English at Queens’ College\, Cambridge and is a graduate of Goldsmith’s MA in Creative & Life Writing. She is the author the novels Where They Were Missed (2006) and The Meeting Point (2011)\, which featured on BBC Radio 4’s Book at Bedtime and was awarded the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her stage plays\, Leaves\, Guardians\, and Notes to Future Self\, and radio dramas\, Girl From Mars\, Avenues of Eternal Peace\, Witch Week\, have won awards including the George Devine Award and the Imison Award. In 2011 she was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature for her body of work to date. Her debut collection of short stories\, Multitudes\, will be published by Faber in May 2016.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/the-long-gaze-back/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:interview,Reading,short story
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SUMMARY:Ireland 1916: Death of a Literary Revival? - 26 Jan
DESCRIPTION:The Irish Literary Society in association with the Irish Studies Centre\, London Metropolitan University\, present a reflection on the Irish Literary Revival (1891-1922).\n\nIrish artists representing various literary forms will join academics in discussion on the artistic legacy of the Revival. The playwright Marina Carr\, poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and novelist Jennifer Johnston will discuss the influence of the Revival on their work and the place of the artist in Ireland after independence. Prof Declan Kiberd\, Dr PJ Mathews of University College Dublin (joint editors of the recent Handbook of the Irish Revival) will present a literary and historical overview of the period. Dr Tony Murray\, Director of the Irish Studies Centre\, will chair the evening. Members must  reserve tickets via the ILS Honorary Secretary (irishlitsoc@gmail.com)\, non-members can purchase tickets via the link below.\n[envira-gallery id=”7761″]\n\n\nfilming at the ILS Revival event with a capacity audience.\n\nSpeakers:\n\nMarina Carr\nOne of Ireland’s most celebrated playwrights whose poetic tragedies often reinterpret ancient myth and address violence and the place of women in Irish life. Across her great Midlands-set plays Carr creates a timeless version of Ireland\, replete with ghosts\, ill-fated women and tragic families. Throughout her work Carr’s engagement with myth and folktale can be read as a richly imaginative reflection on the development of Irish cultural identity.\n\n\nNuala Ní Dhomhnaill\nNí Dhomhnaill is one of the most prominent poets writing in the Irish language today. Her work has reflected profoundly on the tradition shaped by the Revival. From Gaelic myths she has recovered models of powerful Irish women\, including goddesses and queens. Of her work Bernard O’Donoghue\, ILS President\, has written “Her mixture of myth\, linguistic adeptness and feminine address are held together by an outstanding metaphorical force.”\n\nJennifer Johnston\nOne of Ireland’s great writers\, a Whitbread and Booker prize winner\, Johnston has produced brilliant work on the period of 1916-22 in Ireland and on the Great War\, often as a means of examining contemporary Irish life. The Old Jest (1979) and Fool’s Sanctuary (1987) are key works which describe how the War of Independence shattered families and opened class\, gender and religious divides.\n\n\nProfessor Declan Kiberd\nA leading international authority on the literature of Ireland\, both in English and Irish\, Kiberd has authored scores of articles and many books\, including Synge and the Irish Language; Men and Feminism in Irish Literature; Inventing Ireland; and most recently (with P.J. Mathews) Handbook of the Irish Revival: An Anthology of Political and Cultural Writings 1891-1922 (Abbey Theatre Press\, 2015). He is a regular essayist and reviewer in the Irish Times\, TLS\, London Review of Books and the New York Times.\n\n\nDr PJ Matthews\nSenior Lecturer in the Department of English at University College Dublin\, Matthews’ research interests include: the literature and culture of the Irish Revival\, especially the work of J.M. Synge; twentieth century Irish writing; contemporary Irish theatre\, and Irish music. Publications include The Cambridge Companion to J. M. Synge; Revival: The Abbey Theatre; Sinn Féin\, the Gaelic League and the Co-operative Movement; and most recently (with Declan Kiberd) Handbook of the Irish Revival: An Anthology of Political and Cultural Writings 1891-1922 (Abbey Theatre Press\, 2015). He is also co-convenor of the Irish Studies Doctoral Research Network.\n\n\nDr Tony Murray\nDirector of the Irish Studies Centre at London Metropolitan University\, Murray’s research is in literary and cultural representations of the Irish diaspora with a particular focus on the Irish in Britain. He is responsible for the Archive of the Irish in Britain and especially interested in the role of narrative in the construction and mediation of migrant identities. Publications include London Irish Fictions: Narrative Diaspora and Identity (2012) and Winifred M. Patton and the Irish Revival in London (2014).\nThis event is presented in association with:\nLondon Metropolitan University\, home of the Irish Studies Centre \n\nThe ILS is supported by:
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/ireland-1916-death-of-a-literary-revival/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:interview,lecture,poetry,Reading
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SUMMARY:Kevin Barry - 30 November
DESCRIPTION:Barry’s second novel is set in 1978 and imagines John Lennon on the west coast of Ireland\, his plan is to go to the island he owns\, Dorinish— which Lennon really did buy\, in 1967 — and to spend days of cathartic solitude there\, to confront the trauma of “love\, blood\, fate\, death\, sex\, the void” and scream until he finds release. The tale of a wild journey into the world and a wild journey within\, Beatlebone is a mystery box of a novel. It’s a portrait of an artist at a time of creative strife. It is most of all a sad and beautiful comedy from one of the most gifted stylists now at work. Barry will be reading and in conversation with Gavin Clarke. \nBarry on his writing process: Paris Review\, November 2013:I myself live in County Sligo in what seem like the perfect conditions for a writer—a room looking out on a swampy lake\, all very atmospheric\, ethereal mists\, yadda yadda\, and there’s nothing to fucking do but write. But after about two weeks of this\, I need to get out or I’ll go nuts. So I go and cycle around the west of Ireland. I mean I don’t do crazy\, German-type distances\, but I’ll go maybe forty or fifty kilometers a day. And as you go through all the different towns\, you pick up such different senses and reverbs from each place. It isn’t to do with how a place looks—there are run-down\, shitty towns that give you a happy\, spring-in-the-step feeling—but each place gives off its own very distinct feeling and sometimes it’s light and sometimes it’s really fucking dark.\n\nSpeaker:\n\nKevin Barry\nKevin Barry is the author of one novel and two short story collections\, the most recent of which\, Dark Lies the Island\, included the story ‘Beer Trip to Llandudno’ for which he won the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award 2012\, the world’s premier short story prize. His first collection of stories\, There Are Little Kingdoms was published by The Stinging Fly Press in 2007 and was an immediate success. His first novel\, City of Bohane(2011) received largely positive reviews and won the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The book is a futuristic\, apocalyptic western-thriller\, which is highly influenced by film\, graphic novels and popular culture. Barry’s writing is brilliantly vivid\, his style darkly humorous\, in the mould of Flann O’Brien. A unique and compelling voice\, he has already been described by Irvine Welsh as ‘the most arresting and original writer to emerge from these islands in years’.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/kevin-barry-30-november-2015/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:interview,Reading,short story
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20151026T193000
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SUMMARY:Raymond Queneau and Dublin 1916 - October 2015
DESCRIPTION:A late addition to the programme to replace the cancelled John Banville appearance we welcome Dr Dennis Duncan to the Society to discuss Raymond Queneau’s 1947 short novel On est toujours trop bon avec les femmes (We Always Treat Women Too Well ) set during the Easter Rising in 1916. The novel was first published as a purported work of pulp fiction by one Sally Mara\, but Queneau’s work is a wonderful example of his sly\, provocative genius. Queneau was a great admirer of Joyce and kept a notebook to document his reading of Ulysses. Duncan describes Queneau’s erotic and playful twists on history and Joyce’s work thus: ‘The protagonists are a band of rebels who occupy a post office in Dublin\, not the GPO\, but another one\, round the corner on Eden Street. In taking over the building\, the rebels either expel or kill all of the post office staff working there ± the clerks\, tellers\, managers and guards ± with the exception of one woman\, one Gertrude Girdle\, otherwise known as Gertie\, who was in the loo when it happened. The rebels discover Gertie\, and during the course of a somewhat existential interrogation\, she finds her faith in the infallibility of George V irremediably shaken and sets about undermining the rebels\, sowing confusion and dissent among them by systematically seducing them.’ \nILS Rattlebag\nIn addition to this enjoyable and curious look at the events of 1916 as we approach its centenary we have put together a rattlebag of music\, essays\, poetry and film drawn from the talent of the Society:\n My dearest\, forgive me asking you such a question\, but these rebels\, did they – how shall I put it – did they behave correctly towards you? No\, said Gertie. They tried to lift up my beautiful white dress to look at my ankles.Raymond Queneau - We Always Treat Women Too Well \n  \n\n \nDonal Cox (Fifth Province) – poetry and performance\n \nDr Tony Murray –  Portrayals of the Post-War Irish Navvy in London\n \nNora Connolly  – poems\n \nShevaun Wilder – Song of Wandering Aengus film\n \nEddie Linden – poems\n\nWe will have an opportunity for some questions after the presentations by Dr Duncan and Dr Murray. \nSpeaker:\n Dr Dennis Duncan\nHis books include Theory of the Great Game: Writings from Le Grand Jeu\, which appeared with Atlas Press in 2015\, while an edited collection\, Tom McCarthy: Critical Essays\, is in press with Gylphi. He is currently working on a monograph about the early years of the Parisian literary coterie\, the Oulipo and his current research project concerns the history of the book index. He is also interested in literary translation\, and in the European avant-garde of the twentieth century\, in particular the Oulipo and the Collège de ’Pataphysique.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/october-2016-raymond-queneau-and-dublin-1916/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:interview,lecture,poetry,Reading,short story
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SUMMARY:John Banville - 26 October 2015
DESCRIPTION:SUNDAY 25 10 2015 \nJOHN BANVILLE WILL NOT APPEAR ON 26 OCTOBER AS ADVERTISED. THE AUTHOR SENDS HIS REGRETS AS HE HAS LOST HIS VOICE. THE ILS WILL HOST AN EVENING OF ENTERTAINMENT SOURCED FROM TALENT IN THE SOCIETY IN PLACE OF THE BANVILLE READING AT THE SAME TIME AND VENUE. FURTHER DETAILS WILL BE SENT TO MEMBERS TODAY. \nWE LOOK FORWARD TO RESCHEDULING JOHN BANVILLE’S VISIT TO THE ILS IN THE NEW YEAR. \nG. Clarke\nHonorary Secretary\nIrish Literary Society \nOne of Ireland’s great writers makes his first appearance at the ILS to discuss his latest work The Blue Guitar\, his recent genre fiction and wider literary career and interests with journalist and ILS Deputy Chairman\, Dorothy Allen \n\n“You can sense the volumes of Joyce\, Beckett and Nabokov on Banville’s shelves.”Tibor Fischer on Banville \nThe Blue Guitar is a story of theft and the betrayal of friendship:\nOliver Orme used to be a painter\, well known and well rewarded\, but the muse has deserted him. He is also\, as he confesses\, a petty thief; he does not steal for gain\, but for the thrill of it. HIs worst theft is Polly\, the wife of his friend Marcus\, with whom he has had an affair. When the affair is discovered\, Oliver hides himself away in his childhood home. From here he tells the story of a year\, from one autumn to the next. Many surprises and shocks await him\, and by the end of his story\, he will be forced to face himself and seek a road towards redemption. \nSometimes\, in the middle of the afternoon if I’m feeling a little bit sleepy\, Black will sort of lean in over Banville’s shoulder and start writing. Or Banville will lean over Black’s shoulder and say\, “Oh that’s an interesting sentence\, let’s play with that.” I can see sometimes\, revising the work\, the points at which one crept in or the two sides seeped into each otherBanville on Banville \nBiography:\nJohn Banville was born in Wexford\, Ireland\, in 1945. He was educated at Christian Brothers Schools and St. Peter’s College\, Wexford. He worked in journalism from 1969. He was Literary Editor at The Irish Times from 1988 to 1999. Banville had worked across many forms and won acclaim for his screenplays\, radio and TV work. His first novel\, Nightspawn\, came out in 1971. Subsequent novels include Kepler (1980)\, Athena (1995)\, Eclipse (2000)\, The Sea (2005)\, and The Infinities (2010). His non-fiction book\, Prague Pictures: Portraits of a City\, was published in 2003.Among the awards John Banville’s novels have won are the James Tait Black Memorial Prize\, the Guardian Fiction\, the Premio Nonino. He has also received a literary award from the Lannan Foundation in the U.S. He won the Man Booker Prize 2005 for The Sea.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/john-banville-26-october-2015/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:interview,Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150928T193000
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SUMMARY:Órfhlaith Foyle - 28 Sept
DESCRIPTION:The 2015-16 season of ILS events kicks-off with the wonderful Órfhlaith Foyle reading from her short story collection Clemency Browne Dreams of Gin\, her poetry and her new novel.\nÓrfhlaith Foyle’s strange stories of violence and yearning beguile the reader even as they disconcert. She is a true original\, a writer of great gifts\, and I find her work immensely compelling and memorable.’Joseph O'Connor on ‘Somewhere in Minnesota’ \nFoyle’s first novel Belios was published by The Lilliput Press. Her first full poetry collection Red Riding Hood’s Dilemma was published by Arlen House and short-listed for the Rupert and Eithne Strong Award in 2011 and chosen as book of the year by Scotland On Sunday newspaper. \nSomewhere in Minnesota (Arlen House\, 2011) was her debut short fiction collection\, and the title story was first published in Faber and Faber’s New Irish Short Stories (2011)\, edited by Joseph O’Connor. Órfhlaith’s second short story collection titled Clemency Browne Dreams of Gin (Arlen House 2014) was chosen as book of the year by The Irish Times newspaper.\n‘Belios is a dark\, rough\, funny novel about a dying genius and his crazed biographer. It rages with wild vitality oddly touched with tenderness. Órfhlaith Foyle has fire in her belly.’Patrick McGrath \nSpeaker:\n\nÓrfhlaith Foyle\nÓrfhlaith Foyle was born in Africa to Irish parents and now lives in Galway\, Ireland. Her work has been published in The Dublin Review\, The Wales Arts Review\, The Manchester Review\, New Irish Writing and The Stinging Fly.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/orfhlaith-foyle-28-september-2015/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:book signing,poetry,Reading,short story
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SUMMARY:Edna O'Brien / Annual Dinner- 1 June
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Irish Literary Society Annual Dinner on 1 June. The brilliant Edna O’Brien\, our Guest of Honour\, will be reading from her work and taking questions from our Vice President\, Prof. Roy Foster. \nThe ILS kicked-off the Yeats 2015 celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of Ireland’s great poets\, William Butler Yeats\, at the Annual ILS / Irish Embassy Yeats lecture in September 2014. In addition to Edna O’Brien’s appearance we are delighted to announce that the 2014-15 season will be closed with a little Yeats tribute at the Annual Dinner. \nA three-course meal is served in the Liberal Club’s David Lloyd George Room. A cash bar will be open prior to the dinner. Dress-up\, come along and have a great evening with us. Dress code: lounge suit with tie. \nTickets are £43 (members) and £49 (non-members) and can be booked via our EventBrite page (http://goo.gl/gfL2nt) (+online booking fee)\, alternatively you can pay by cash or cheque at our next lecture on 18 May or complete the form below and send a cheque and your details to our Honorary Treasurer:\n————————–————————–————————– \nComplete the details below\, enclose a cheque made out to ‘Irish Literary Society’ and send to Mr. James Lazar: 23 Brockham Drive\, Ilford\, IG2 SQW: \nI wish to apply for the following tickets for the ILS Annual dinner. \n__________tickets @ £43 for members and __________tickets @ £49 for non-members.\nI enclose a cheque for £_____ payable to ‘IRISH LITERARY SOCIETY’. \nName:________________________________________ \nAddress/Telephone Number________________________________________\n_______________________________________________ \nName(s) of guests:________________________________________________________________________________________ \nQueries to: Gavin Clarke\, Hon. Secretary\, Irish Literary Society: irishlitsoc@gmail.com
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/annual-dinner-2015/
LOCATION:National Liberal Club\, 1 Whitehall Place\, London\, SW1A 2HE\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:interview,Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20150330T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20150330T210000
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SUMMARY:Martin Dyar - 30 March
DESCRIPTION:Martin Dyar’s debut collection of poems Maiden Names (Arlen House\, 2013) was a book of the year selection in both the Guardian and The Irish Times\, and was shortlisted for both the Pigott Poetry Prize and the Shine/Strong Award. Martin will read from his work for the Irish Literary Society. \nDyar is the author of an acclaimed play\, Tom Loves a Lord\, about the Irish poet Thomas Moore. He won the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 2009\, and the Strokestown Award in 2001; has also been the recipient of two Arts Council Bursary Awards for literature. A graduate of NUI Galway\, and Trinity College Dublin\, most recently he was a Writer Fellow at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. He is currently finishing a novel about a cult in the West of Ireland. \n… ‘Martin Dyar’s narratives about the strangeness of the everyday have a vividness and colour which are a thrilling new development in Irish poetry. Their eloquence and life clear the boards of anything tired or familiar\, making room for the language of poetry to move into new areas to cope with the central moments of people’s lives. This is a book of real importance and originality.’ILS President\, Bernard O'Donoghue \nSpeaker:\n \nMartin Dyar\nBorn in Sligo\, Martin Dyar grew up in Swinford in County Mayo. A graduate of NUIG and TCD\, his poetry has received a number of honours\, including the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 2009\, and the Strokestown International Poetry Award in 2001. In 2010 he was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series. He has also been a writer in residence at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. His debut collection\, Maiden Names\, published by Arlen House\, was shortlisted for the 2014 Piggott Prize. He has received two Arts Council Literature Bursary Awards\, the most recent in 2013.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/martin-dyar-30-march/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:book signing,interview,poetry,Reading
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SUMMARY:Dublin as Global City - 3 Feb
DESCRIPTION:In recent decades\, national history has bifurcated\, moving both down (micro-history) and up (Atlantic\, global history). This illustrated lecture is an exercise in regarding history as a panorama rather than as a close-up in considering the global positioning through space and time of a small but influential city. It approaches the evolution of Dublin through a series of flows – of people\, ideas\, goods\, and culture. It tracks Dublin’s rise as a ‘city of brick’\, as it surged from a mere 10\,000 in 1600 to 200\,000 by 1800 – a response to the northwards migration of the centre of gravity of the European economy from its old Mediterranean heart to the Atlantic facade. It anatomises Dublin under the Union\, a ‘city of shadows’\, as its trade\, population and prospects were all constricted. It considers the influence of two global systems -Imperialism\, Catholicism – on Dublin in the nineteenth century. The ‘city of words’ emerged in the early twentieth century\, when Joyce\, Yeats and Beckett found ways to universalize the city. The 1916 Rising is considered\, as is the exhausted city of the post-imperial phase. Finally the lecture looks at the emergence of the ‘silicon city’\, and how Dublin functions as a transnational city in the current global economy. By looking at Dublin over a long time frame and in a wider geographical frame\, its distinctive evolution can be tracked through comparative perspectives. \nSpeaker:\n \nProfessor Kevin Whelan\nBiography: Kevin Whelan was named the inaugural Director of the University of Notre Dame Centre in Dublin in 1998. He has been a visiting professor at New York University\, Boston College and Concordia University (Montreal). He has lectured in over a dozen countries\, and at the Sorbonne\, Cambridge\, Oxford\, Torino\, Berkeley\, Yale\, Dartmouth\, and Louvain. He has written or edited twenty books and over one hundred articles on Ireland’s history\, geography\, literature and culture. These include The Tree of Liberty (1996)\, Fellowship of Freedom(1998)\, and the Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape (2011). Among influential articles are those on ‘An underground gentry?\,’ ‘The republic in the village\,’ ‘The Memories of “The Dead\,”’ ‘Between: the politics of culture in Friel’s Translations’ and ‘The Green Atlantic.’
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/ils-23-february-2015-prof-kevin-whelan-on-ireland-as-a-global-city-1600-2015/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:lecture,Reading,research
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SUMMARY:Joe Horgan - 26 Jan
DESCRIPTION:For the first ILS lecture of 2015 Joseph Horgan discusses his book\, The Song at Your Backdoor\, and recites poems from his prize-winning collections. In The Song at Your Backdoor he sets out to follow Patrick Kavanagh’s maxim that ‘all great civilisations are based on parochialism. To know fully even one field or one land is a lifetime’s experience.’ \nThe book spans one autumn and one winter\, framed by the departure of the swallows from the author’s backyard and concluding with their return. In between\, the author travels on foot or by bicycle along some quiet country lanes of 21st-century Ireland. Mingling his musings with references from seventh-century poetry to modern geological studies\, the author encourages us to look again at nature around us and to respect and protect it. \nAs a writer born and raised in England with Irish parents he finds that his exploration of nature and the fields around his Irish home become wrapped up in feelings of identity even as he is ostensibly discussing swallows or otters. \nSpeaker:\n\nJoe Horgan\nJoseph Horgan was born in Birmingham\, England\, in 1964 of Irish parents. His poetry collections are Slipping Letters Beneath the Sea (Tralee\, Doghouse\, 2008) and An Unscheduled Life (East Sussex\, UK\, [with the artist Brian Whelan] Agenda Editions\, 2012). His book The Song at your Backdoor (Cork\, Collins Press 2010)\, which was an RTE Book on One is a reflection on the relationship between poetry and landscape and meditative engagement with his local world in Cork. He was shortlisted for the Hennessy Prize in 2003 and won the Patrick Kavanagh Award for poetry in 2004. Horgan writes a weekly column for the Irish Post from his Cork home.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/joe-horgan-26-jan/
LOCATION:The Bloomsbury Hotel\, The Bloomsbury Hotel\, 16-22 Great Russell Street\, London\, WC1B 3NN \, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:book signing,folklore,nature,poetry,Reading
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SUMMARY:Maria Fusco - 27 Sept
DESCRIPTION:Tonight Maria Fusco will read from her novel Sailor \nSailor is the story of a monkey in Belfast during the Blitz in 1941\, a book about familial love and loss\, the illusion of trust\, the failure of social mobility and the pressing desire to escape from nature. The eponymous Sailor is a two-year old vervet\, smuggled from Freetown by Merchant Seaman Mick as a Christmas present for his wife Maureen. The book is narrated by Sailor in first person Belfast dialect\, as an internal monologue: his voice is absurdist\, idiosyncratic and richly textured.  \nSpeakers:\n\nMaria Fusco\nAuthor Maria Fusco is a Belfast-born writer\, critic and editor based in London. Her short stories\, The Mechanical Copula\, (Sternberg Press Berlin/New York: 2010) have been published in both English and French. Her recent screenplay Gonda\, commissioned by Film London\, with Austrian artist Ursula Mayer\, premiered in April 2012. Gonda will be published as a cine-roman in November and performed as an opera at 21er Haus\, Vienna in October 2013. Maria is Director of Art Writing at Goldsmiths\, University of London and Editor of the semi-annual journal\, The Happy Hypocrite. She is currently working on Donald\, a book of short stories based on ten film roles of actor Donald Sutherland\, commissioned by Collective in Edinburgh\, and also researching her next novel Heart of a Peach\, about a hydro-electric power station in Scotland and explosives experts from Donegal. Her website is here.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/8334/
LOCATION:The Doubletree by Hilton\, 2 Bridge Place\, Victoria\, London\, SWIV 1QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20120329T193000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20120329T210000
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SUMMARY:Louis Lentin - 29 Mar
DESCRIPTION:Theatre\, film and documentary maker Louis Lentin will situate his own television work\, specifically his ground breaking production for television\, of Dear Daughter in the wider the role of Irish documentary in film and television. Ireland has experienced dramatic shifts in its social and political make-up in recent decades which has been directly reflected and shaped by the media. Lentin’s work is one of a range of perspectives in the diverse landscape of Irish documentary making.  \nThe recent publication of Documentary in a Changing State looks back over the last two decades through the prism of documentary to get a snap shot of the dramatic shifts and upheavals in Irish society\, socially\, culturally and politically it includes an interview with Lentin. The book will be on sale at a discount for members after the talk.\nSpeakers:\n\nLouis Lentin\nLouis Lentin is a theatre\, film and television director. He was born in Limerick\, Ireland\, in 1933 and worked for over forty years in the arts in Ireland. He founded Art Theatre Productions in 1959 and was responsible for the first Irish productions of Krapp’s Last Tape and Endgame. RTÉ Head of Drama Hilton Edwards asked him to work in RTÉ. In 1975\, he received a Jacob’s Award for his direction of three television plays broadcast on RTÉ in the previous year: Aleksei Arbuzov’s The Promise\, Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage\, and Jean Anouilh’s The Rehearsal (“La Répétition ou l’Amour puni”).Louis Lentin was also involved in founding Israeli television. Lentin is a member of Aosdána.
URL:https://irishliterarysociety.org/event/louis-lentin-29-mar/
LOCATION:The Doubletree by Hilton\, 2 Bridge Place\, Victoria\, London\, SWIV 1QA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:documentary,film,Reading,research
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